My blog, is not going away- I am just moving to other software

Why?

I posted on the new site, HERE surrounding my reasons to migrate away from wordpress to a new static site design.

To summarize the post- Security, Privacy, and Performance.

Security

WordPress nearly always has a new vulnerability, in either its core, or via a 3rd party plugin needed to add desired functionality. By shifting to a completely static design, there is basically nothing which can be exploited.

As well, since the new site is completely static, with no dynamic content whatsoever, It can be hosted by a service such as… Cloudflare pages, github pages, etc.

Privacy

While- I try my best to keep a hand on the data of my users, in the event this site is PWNED, I cannot promise, nor guarantee the privacy of my users. As such, in the new site, I have full control over exactly what data goes where.

Performance

While I have done numerous optimizations to make this blog very responsible and performant- It will never be able to compete with a fully cached/static site.

Where

New posts will be done at https://static.xtremeownage.com/

New post notifications

For those who rely on wordpress to send notifications of new content, The only option I currently have for you is to setup a RSS feeder, and keep an eye on the NEW RSS FEED.

If you wish to self-host a feeder, FreshRSS is amazing.

If you wish to use a cloud-service, Feedly.IO works well.

Outlook also has built-in support for RSS feeds.

When

I have already started posting new content at the static site months ago. At this particular point in time, I have already migrated over a few handfuls of content… and will continue migrating content as time goes on.

For content which has already been migrated, you will be redirected automatically to the new location.

As a result of the lack of participation in the community, I will be converting most of the content into this wordpress blog, which will be focused on the content I choose to share. Overall- it should be a better platform for that purpose, albit, with less collaboration features as a whole, which were not being utilized anyways.

If you are reading this- Welcome aboard.

One final note- I will be tweaking the theme and appearance of this site for a few weeks as time allows, until I am happy with the outcome.

If you are looking for something located on the old site, please look here: https://xtremeownage.com/forum

Edit- from 2023

Well, WordPress lasted quite a few years. It has served its goal. Time for static design to take over!